World Cup 2026 Shock: Could Third Place Play-Off Goals Decide the Golden Boot Winner?
Davor Suker remains the last Golden Boot winner to find the net in a World Cup third-place play-off, scoring Croatia’s winner against the Netherlands in 1998.
Since then, only two other Golden Boot recipients have featured in the bronze-medal match have been Germany’s Miroslav Klose in 2006 and England’s Harry Kane in 2018, but neither finished the game by adding to their tournament tallies.
Diego Forlan and Thomas Muller both struck in the 2010 third-place match, but did so as part of a four-way draw for the tournament’s top scorer prize, with Muller ultimately claiming the official Golden Boot trophy thanks to his superior assist tally.
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